Jimtown High School

Jimtown High School is a small high school with its address in Elkhart, Indiana. It educates 546 students in grades 9 through 12. The typical figure for high schools in Indiana is about 816 students.

Baugo Community Schools has 4 schools; together they serve 1,849 students.

White students make up a majority at Jimtown High School, at 76%. Smaller groups are 15% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. For comparison, Elkhart County is about 74% White. The school's diversity index is 40%, meaning two students picked at random have a 40% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Teachers at the school number 42.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.9:1. This ratio sits 3.7 below the 16.6:1 average for high schools in Indiana. Roughly 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 51% for public schools in Elkhart County.

County data help place the school in context: in Elkhart County, the median household income is $68,561, roughly 20% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Elkhart County is home to 60 public schools and about 33,574 public school students.

Jimtown Junior High School is located about 0.1 miles from Jimtown High School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Mid-size, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Jimtown High School's enrollment declined from 585 in 2020-21 to 546 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 18.3 in 2020-21 to 12.9 in 2024-25.

Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.